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Gloria Borger's column in U.S. News makes an interesting point. Politics 101 tells you that it is better for a presidential candidate to run as an outsider. Is it?
Obama and Edwards are both running as outsiders. Edwards even wears blue jeans instead of his suit and tie on the trail, and Obama talks about being the candidate of "change", bringing fresh air to the corrupt beltway political scene.
But Hillary Clinton is well ahead and she is running *as* an insider.
Her arguments seems to be that
1)outsiders cannot fix the system. Outsiders more often than not can get eaten up/swallowed whole by beltway sharks.
2) you cannot fix the system from the outside, just as you cannot fix a car's engine unless you know how that engine works.
A revolution requires an outsider. A reform movement requires an insider. Obama has only been in D.C. three years and Edwards was only there six and they aren't nearly as connected to the establishment, in terms of knowing who the right people to hire, as Hillary has been.
Hillary's substantial leads in the polls make the case that democratic primary voters do not want an outsider. They are not looking for a new system as that is unrealistic. They are looking for someone who can reform the current system and make it work better.
I am thinking that Edwards and Obama need to drop this "outsider" stuff, because all it ingrains in voters minds is that they are *admitting* they don't have Hillary's experience. That adds up to her having a 20 or 25 point lead in national polls.

Rasmussen poll: Thursday, September 13, 2007 Forty-three percent (43%) of Americans favor the recommendation made by General David Petraeus to withdraw 30,000 soldiers from Iraq but leave 130,000 troops in place at least through the summer. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 38% are opposed and 19% are not sure. And so the American people have spoken as to the surge. Now our President will make it so ...........despite some of the most corrupt left-wing attempts by America?s news media this week to push their lies and propaganda in support of their fellow liberal pals, the Democrats. The stunt pulled by the far left-wing hate group MoveOn.org and the ultra liberal corrupt NYTimes to smear the US General on the ground this past Monday was a total disgrace to all Americans. Today our liberal political/news organizations represent poison in the blood stream of this great nation..................and that's a FACT

Thank goodness for the LATimes. I wonder why this isn't getting more attention...on how Hsu was evidently closer to the Clintons that the Clintons want us to know:
When Bill Clinton received an award at a gala dinner honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy last year, the former president expressed his thanks before an audience that included a Nobel Prize winner and a glittering array of show business celebrities and Wall Street titans. Yet the second sentence of his remarks expressed special gratitude to a man almost no one there had heard of: "our friend Norman Hsu."
Isn't it amazing how the Clintons always attract the wrong type of people? I realize that sometimes in politics even the best attract some unscrupulous people into their orbit, but with the Clintons it's just become the norm. Reject Hillary...she's poison to the Democratic party. Go with Obama.

obama and edwards should be sending rudy giuliani flowers and a thank you card. he just did the most damage in two days than they've done in 8 months. he's really bruising hillary up. reminding people why they didn't like her the last time around. score one for rudy AND obama.

look at this scun here calling themselves commentator...
i have two names for you naderite..
Rezko
Patrick Fitzgerald
obamas slumlord republican friend sponsor sugar daddy and co owner of his own lil mansion.
idiots like you guarantee that there is NO WAY that Obama will be our VP choice or ever President
you are stupid and ineffective

den dem: I love you too; thanks for the kind words! I must be at least a tiny bit effective, because my comments got under your skin!
Let's face the truth: the Clintons are always surrounded by sleazy, questionable characters. This Hsu guy was closer to the Clintons than they want to admit. He clearly expected something from them, perhaps a pardon if Hillary won the presidency. Hillary is indeed poison to the Democratic party, and Obama guarantees victory.